Do you suppose the guy working the loading dock will come in on the weekend and upgrade the databases? Why not? He now makes the same as you.

More likely that people were being paid the market rate for their skill set.

Now, ALL skill sets pay about the same.

Think about that as you sit there, upgrading a server and looking at the B.S. Degree on your wall that cost you $50k (way back when). The Receptionist is making as much as you do now.

No one is keeping you in shackles mining salt. You are free to find employment elsewhere. In a different location, industry, discipline. It's up to you.

So here you are, a clerk or some other lower on the totem pole individual who is now making $70k. You buy a house, maybe a used car, or the reverse, either way, you increase you expenses because you can. Even frugal people would do it, it's human nature.

So now it's a few years later. The company goes under, you get laid off and you go around looking for a job that pays $70k for doing what you were doing.

None to be had.

Compensation has been commensurate to your skills for hundreds of years. It may suck for the unskilled, but that's what works. For the employer and the employee. You increase your skills, you increase your pay. Do more, get paid more. When everyone makes the same or nearly the same for vastly different levels of skill and effort, then you are headed for trouble in the long term. Just look up the Jamestown Colony and how it worked out for them.

I think this has been tried before

Great, the Universe masturbates.

Calling Scientology a Religion is like call Mary Kay Products a Religion.

tries to be beneficial to society.

So Islam is out then.

The EMR discussion is not necessarily related to Obamacare.

I'm a fan of the ID that you carry your medical information with you on a card. Go to a provider, insert the card and there ya go. They update it with whatever happens or treatments and you are on your way.

...put the cameras on a 30 minute loop and hired an acrobat to lower into the room from the roof after hours and change the system. Then do the Lotto Commissioner's wife to keep him distracted.

Just be sure to check for a new logo on the floor.

This is one of those rare instances where the Feds CAN make a difference by mandating specific medical record formats, import and export of data, standard reporting functionality, etc.

Many EMRs are in "island" systems that you can't easily get the data out of or bring data into, stranding important information and raising the costs of moving from provider to provider. How many fucking times have you filled out the stupid medical history forms?

Where the data is kept is up for discussion, but the format and content should be standard across all systems.

A computer let the copilot of an airliner fly it into a fucking mountain. Your trust of software is severely misplaced.

No accidents, not even a fender bender in 37 years, fuck you very much.

I haven't had an accident in 37 years, fuck you very much.